New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era Jacqueline Horsfall Recipes that pair a modern

Recipes that pair a modern food menu with the consciousness of the 17th Century

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What they envisioned as a graceful pirouette into the golden years often leads instead to a rude awakening

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New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era Jacqueline Horsfall Recipes that pair a modernAmerican Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define their place in American culture. Cummings highlights four women: Chicago based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND,